World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass surveillance

Re:World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass ... by pgeorgi on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:19PM (#12521673)

It's not a judicial review, the PKG (parliamentary control committee) and the G10 Kommittee, which is a subset of the PKG, both consist of members of Parliament, and they do the same work (keeping an eye on the executive branch's work) - just for efforts whose information is considered too sensitive for wider distribution.

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Re:World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass ... by dogma1138 on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:11PM (#12522477)

My german is a bit rusty but doesn't "gerichtlicher prüfung" translates into "court examination" or more precisely "judicial review"?

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Re:World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass ... by pgeorgi on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:39AM (#12524766)

"Die anstelle gerichtlicher Prüfung des Sachverhalts vorgesehenen politischen Kontrollgremien haben sich in der Vergangenheit aber oft als unzulänglich erwiesen:"

translates to (while keeping the sentence structure the same as much as possible, even if that sounds a bit off in english):

"The, in place of judicial review of the factual matter, arranged political control committees have shown in the past to often be insufficient:"

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Re:World's largest Internet exchange sues Germany over mass ... by germanier on Sunday September 18, 2016 @02:17AM (#12524180)

The Wikipedia article states (correctly) that there is no judicial review in the usual case. The parliamentary committee does not perform that.

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